The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-01-20

The following is the bill introduced by
our Representative Hon. B. F. Kitchen,
relating to the employment of convict
labor:
To provide for the disposition convict the
penitentiary.
SECTION Be 1T enacted By the General Assembly of
of Ohio, That 74s, 1920 7421, 1922
1923 1929 of the Revised Statutes be amended
to read as follows:
SECTION .. Section seven thousand four hundred
and nineteen (7419) To provide for hard labor by
each convict, according his sentence. The board
shall employ all the labor of convicts upon such
branches of business and for the manufacture of such
articles in its Judgment will best accomplish that
end, and subserve the interests of the state which
employment said labor shall be hereinafter pro-
vided.
SECTION 3. To the manufacture of all the boots,
Shoes hats caps, coats, pants shirts, blankets and
all other articles of wearing apparel, and all things
else that can be so manufactured for the of the
charitable and penal institutions of the state of Ohio
such the asyums for the insane for the deaf and
dumb for the mbecie, for the blind and the reform
school for boys and the manufacturing of the furn
ture for the intermediate penitentiary.
SECTION 4. And should there be- after these insttu
tions provided for, surplus remaining of such
tices thus manufactured, then the board may
dispose of the to boards of county inrmaries,
county district homes for children, warehouses;,
other charitable penal benevolent Institutions
at the cost price of such articles at the penitentary
SECTION 3. Section seven thousand four hundred
and twenty 7420). The convicts shall perform such
labor ten hours a day, Sundays excepted.
SECTION 6. Section seven thousand four hundred
and twenty (742D. On or before the fifth week
day of each month, the clerk shall make, and the
warden certify and deliver to the auditor of state
statement of the amount of articles manufactured,
and the amount furnished to each institution and to
each county with their receipt for the same and in
the month ofNovember of each year annual state
ment shall thus be made and delivered to the auditor
of state showing the amount of each article made,
together with the distribution and cost of the
SECTION I. Section seven thousand four hundred
and twenty-five (7422). 1t shall be the duty of the
board to keep many employed in the manufac-
ture of the articles mentioned in section 749 the
interests of the state will permit.
SECTION s. Section seven thousand four hundred
and twenty three (7423). All convicts who not
employed in the manufacture of the articles named
in section 749 may be employed by the directors and
warden In the performance of work, such may be
for the good of the convict advantage to the regula
tion and management the prison, proSt to the
stale temporarily hired, which hiring shall ter
inmate whenever their labor be employed in the
MANUFACTURE of the articles named in section 7I19.
SECTION o. Section seven thousand four hundred
and twentyfou (7I2). The warden, under the direc
tion of the board, may employ portion of the con-
victs in the facture of articles used by the
state in carrying the penitentiary and may also
procure machinery, and prepare shop-room for the
purposes herein mentioned, and employ such per-
may be necessary to instruct the conyicts in
such labor. If such persons be employed the terms
of employment shall be fixed and determined by the
board.
SECTION 10. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.